Music By Mattie just dropped magic.METER, a free analyzer that grades your vocal mix against measurements taken from 3,054 hit songs. It never processes the audio, it only listens and scores things like

Jun Murakami put out a free Kontakt library sampled straight from actual Famicom hardware. It is called Famitone 2A03, version 1.0, and you grab it as Famitone2A03_v1.0.zip from his GitHub repo. The thing

Editing drum maps inside Cubase is tedious enough that a free standalone editor is genuinely worth grabbing. Jun Murakami's Cubase DrumMap Editor (v1.5) does the whole job: New, Open, Save, plus Import.csv

Orra Audio just dropped Orra Key, a free key-finding plugin that actually puts the result to work. Drop it on a loop, press play, and within seconds it names the key, the relative major or minor, and the

Nerve Audio's Magnetar is one of those synths that found its niche early. It's a polyphonic drone and sound-sculpture box built around a Polivoks filter, going for 69 € at launch (down from 109 €). The

W.A. Production just handed BPB readers the keys to their Techno Mega Pack — a seven-pack bundle that normally sells for $155.85. It's stacked for techno and tech house: Techno Stamina, Dirty House Fever,

Directing a vocal session without a system is a mess. Takes pile up, you scribble on lyric sheets, and an hour later nobody remembers which phrase of take three was the keeper. Vocal Take Manager exists

Some tracks you fight your way through. This one went the other way. Path of Least Resistance came out of letting the machines steer for a change, no forcing anything, just following the current wherever

Loot Audio is giving away UVI Prisma for free — the $149 hybrid instrument built from 250 UVI instruments, with 1,151 presets on board. Two sound layers per patch, five performance macros for quick changes,

Most plugin folders fill up with stuff that promises a new sound. TestTone is the opposite. It's a test signal generator from Jun Murakami, currently at version 1.0.5, and its whole job is to hand you

280 studio-quality wave samples of the E-mu Orbit 9090 (V2 "The Rave Planet") synthesizer — rave, techno, industrial, and electronic drum sounds. 28.7 MB. Price: $2.12 Get it here: #horrorweapon